Folk Culture

Seventy Miles in the Darién GapFor the September 2024 issue, Caitlin Dickerson reported on the impossible path to America.As a...

The venture capitalist Shaun Maguire is a particularly prolific poster. And lately, his takes have become almost unavoidable.Maguire manages Sequoia...

Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | Overcast | Pocket CastsAfter former President Donald Trump’s surprise victory in...

“Just go to sleep,” Martin Chalfie’s wife told him late one October night in 2008. Chalfie, a Columbia University chemist,...

Over the past week, Donald Trump has been on a fascist romp. At rallies in Colorado and California, he amped...

Not so long ago, dogs were valued primarily for the jobs they performed. They hunted, herded livestock, and guarded property,...

“Cancer,” Susan Sontag observed in Illness as Metaphor, “is a rare and still scandalous subject for poetry; and it seems...

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A year of conflict in the Middle East has destroyed the foreign-policy approach of Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei....

On August 7, 2022, Shantise Summers arrived home from a night out with friends around 2:40 a.m. As she walked...